>> P.S.: The first calculatin machine might be the one of
>> Wilhelm Schickard from 1623.
> Johann Kepler tried to build some kind of calculator too I think.
I never heard of it, but maybe he thought about some
machine in his time as Imperial Mathematician in Prag
(1601..1612 - nice history on
http://www.kepler.arc.nasa.gov/johannes.html
) - but afaik the idea of calculating machines
did recive more attention (althrough more seen
as scince fiction) after the invention of the
Taschenuhr by Peter Heinlein (15something).
Gruss
H.
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
Received on Fri Jun 19 1998 - 09:46:11 BST